JSLih 036

Siglum
JSLih 036
Alternative Sigla
D 043, Scagliarini 1994: 142–148, no. 2, Al-Qudrah 1993: 33, no. 083, CLL 025, Grimme 1937: 303, Lidzbarski 1915: 216–217
Transliteration
---- bn / bʿl / ntbʿl ----
---- {ʿ}zy / f rḍt -h / {h}----
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Translation
By / son of F ---- son of Bʿl Ntbʿl ----
----{ʿzy} and so may she favour him {h}----
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Lidzbarski: fḏy for [ʿ]zy; Jaussen & Savignac: fzʿ for [ʿ]zy; Jaussen & Savignac followed by Lidzbarski and Grimme: rṭt for rḍt; Farès-Drappeau: (hn)ʿzy at the beginning of this line and w rather than h at the end of this line. TRANSLATION Line 1. Al-Qudrah: '---- son of Bʿl Ntn [offered the blood sacrifice to god]'. Line 2. Caskel: 'one live-span,.... for him'. DISCUSSION Jamme 1968: 133.
Commentary
The inscription is carved on a sandstone slab and is broken on both the left and right sides. Line 2. The feminine form of the verb indicates that the deity is female.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾlfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī iṭār al-luġāt al-sāmiyyah al-ǧanūbiyyah. Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • [CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. pp 88
  • [D] Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. pp 157–158
  • Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322.
  • [JaL] Jamme, A. Minaean Inscriptions Published as Liḥyanite. [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1968. pp 133
  • [JSTham] Jaussen, A. & Savignac, M.R. Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. (Mars-Mai 1907) De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima Harrah de Tebouk. Texte et Atlas. III. Les châteaux arabes de Quṣeir ʿAmra, Ḫarâneh, et Tûba. (5 volumes). (Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques, 2). [Reprinted Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1997]. Paris: Leroux/Geuthner, 1909–1920. Vol. II pp 365–366 Plate LXXIX
  • Lidzbarski, M. Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik. (3 volumes). Giessen: Ricker &Töpelmann, 1902-1915.
  • [NAU] Scagliarini, F. Le iscrizioni liḥyānitiche dell'Oasi di al-ʿUlā. Dottorato di ricerca in semitistica: linguistica semitica, Universita' degli studi di Firenze, anni accademici 1992-1994 . [unpublished thesis]. 1994. No. 2 pp 142–148 Plate II
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ (7658)
Subjects
Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037793
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